Summer winds down, and the liturgical calendar begins to heat up.

How do I maintain a sense of healthy humility? Who helps me keep my head on straight?

"Unless you begin at the rock-solid, painful truth," spiritual writer William O'Malley maintains in his gloriously simple book Holiness, "you're pumping your legs like Elmer Fudd long beyond the cliff's edge."

When he learned of his father’s death, he was 3,000 miles away. He boarded the first plane bound for his small New England town.

A friend of mine was secretly hurt when the provisions of his mother's will were announced. He'd always assumed that his mother would bequeath her wedding ring to his daughter.

Brothers and sisters, let us humbly acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

It is the greatest shame in the world to see that our Creator bears so many insults from His creatures, and that we resent even a little word that is contradictory.

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